Cloth Ears was a Herne Bay, UK based fanzine from 1983 to 1990 produced by Andrea Johnson.

Cloth Ears contained a good mix of interviews and reviews from the UK indie music scene of the time. In conjunction with the zine, the editor also produced a series of compilation cassettes with tracks from acts featured in the fanzine.

With Cloth Ears issue 5 came a cassette featuring Lean Steel, Playground (with a cover of Flipper's 'Sex Bomb'), Attrition, Celestial Orgy, Instigators, Bastard Kestrel, Salad Speech, Thrilled Skinny, The Venus Fly Trap and more. It was released in an edition of 250 in 1988 and packaged with stickers and an A5 booklet.

Issue #9, released in 1990 contained a special feature on writer D.F. Lewis.